JSOW upgrade testing soars - Airscoop - Brief Article

0 Comments | Naval Aviation News, May, 2002 | by Wendy Leland

> In February the AGM-154C Joint Standoff Weapon unitary warhead variant successfully completed a second demonstration of its waypoint navigation and autonomous target acquisition capability at the NAVAIR western test range complex. In the UK later that month, the missile demonstrated its hard-target penetrating capability using the Broach penetration multistage warhead, which consists of a penetrating shaped charge in front of a conventional follow-through bomb.